Epictetus Quotes

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.

The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

It is what it is, it is what you make it.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.